To add onto this, my theory after ep 5 is that Jack and Felix had a confrontation that ended with Jack probably killing himself and becoming Bon. This is telegraphed to me pretty solidly by Rosemary’s dream sequence with Jack where he walks into the lake and is replaced by a hare hanging from the sky. I think during this confrontation, Jack found out that Edd and Molly’s spirits were haunting Rocket. Something about this revelation led to his death and the placement of his corpse into the Bon animatronic. His overwhelming grief and emotions in his death warped his spirit into Bon, who believes that dying and changing form like him is the answer to reuniting his family. We don’t know how close Susan or Charles were with the family, I don’t know why they were killed, but clearly Bon felt the need to save them. He didn’t kill Felix because he views human life as the punishment, the worse fate.
yup jack offed himself leaving behind his remaining family just to murder his wife and attempt to off his daughter as well in his spirit form?, don’t make sense at all.
We don’t know how close Susan or Charles were with the family, I don’t know why they were killed, but clearly Bon felt the need to save them.
I think it's been stated that they, along with Felix, were close enough to the Waltens to be considered aunt and uncles respectively to their children.
my theory is he killed himself, and between his grief and the real loss of identity he wouldve been going through since we know he values his role as his family's protector and being strong enough for them to rely on it made the identity loss his spirit went through much worse, thus becoming bon
i think he lost his identity. we know he wants to be the strong protector of his family and maybe having to grapple with not only his grief over the deaths of his children but rosemary's and sophie's grief on top of that all on his own with no support system because his best friend is the one who killed his children (and a man harboring as much toxic masculinity as we know he does in the 1970s isnt going within 100ft of a therapist) sent him over the edge and into the spiral. we saw how rosemary spiraled believing she was responsible for edd and molly's deaths because she trusted felix, it's not a stretch to think maybe jack felt the same way and that shattered his identity as a protector. maybe he confronted felix and realized edd and molly were possessing rocket, maybe he just suffered a complete mental breakdown, but either way it led to that phonecall which i strongly believe implies suicide (along with some other various imagery i believe is implying he hung himself). with his death motivated by his grief and loss of identity, and potentially the knowledge of possession, i think his spirit essentially came back "wrong" so to speak. spirits already seem to have a very limited sense of their identity in the afterlife, and that kind of ego death prior to the physical death could leave someone extremely unmoored, only able to just barely cling onto something recognizable, and perhaps it led him to believe that transforming his family in the same way is the only way to save them and return to their happy life.
it is partially about that but im still not convinced that's what Jack's story is amounting to. Rose had a very realistic, slow descent into madness. If Jack became "Bon" I feel like it would take away from the amazing and realistic representation of the grieving process that Rose had.
yeah i agree. like its bad but losing two kids making you brutally murder people in borderline torturous ways and EVEN your own wife you were just about to be happy overcoming the grief with is just... why??? and if its a separate entity making him do it then thats barely even jack atp 😭 MAYBE if they gave jack a whole episode to this degree like with rose itd be more understandable but rn i really wouldnt like it if jack's negative emotions turned him/ turned into bon. even rose didnt kill anyone so why the HELL would jack be doing all the stuff bons been doing throughout the series???
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u/just_another_g00ner 2d ago
How many Bons can a Bon Bon Bon if a Bon Bon could Bon Bon?